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Welcome to CFLR- Centre for Feminist Legal Research
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We examine these rights from a postcolonial, feminist perspective. Our intention is to ground analysis of these rights within the context of postcolonial India and produce research that reveals how systems of knowledge about the `other’ or the `subaltern subject’ have been in part produced in and through the colonial
The centre examines issues of disadvantage and disparity within the broader framework of the International legal order. In this increasingly globalized world, it is critical to understand how issues are no longer local and are re-shaped, reconfigured and refashioned within the contemporary moment of globalization. Fixed notions of the sovereign state and sovereign subject are being disrupted and giving way to uncertainty, instability and a great deal of questioning. We bring a postcolonial perspective to international law, drawing on the colonial encounter to challenge historical narratives that underscore the modernist narratives, which are eurocentric, linear and based on notions of universalism that were and continue to be highly exclusive. Our works examines how the questioning of this modernist narrative of international law, produced by cross-border movements, the creation of super national regimes of authority and the emergence of powerful non-state actors, are producing new challenges in the postcolonial world and for the postcolonial subject.
The research draws a distinction between the legal regulation of sexual speech and of hate speech - two very different kinds of speech, with two very different kinds of laws. Hate speech laws addresses a specific harm - promotion of hatred towards different racial, caste and religious groups. The dimensions of hate speech and the handling of such speech by the courts, has become an increasingly sensitive issue in the context of the contemporary communal environment and the ascendance of the right wing.
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English
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- Flat #5, 45, Friends Colony, ( E)
- New Delhi - 110 065 110067 INDIA
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- Ratna Kapur
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- +91 1126191146
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- Alexa: Cflr.org
